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I'll Bet Someone in the SEO Forum would be able to answer this one

by gjd6599
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I have a new blog I built in May of this year, which has 5 pages of content. It only gets about 10 to 12 visitors a day, but I just noticed that Google shows it as a PR 1. How is that possible? What do they go by, for a PR rating? I thought it was traffic.

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  • Profile picture of the author Jill Carpenter
    To get the real answer you would need to ask Google, and they're not telling.

    PS PR1 is the lowest.
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    • Profile picture of the author dadamson
      PR is actually passed down through backlinks.

      If you have some higher PR backlinks than your actual page, the PR will often flow down to your page as long as it is a dofollow link.

      Source: years of testing.

      Originally Posted by Jill Carpenter View Post

      To get the real answer you would need to ask Google, and they're not telling.

      PS PR1 is the lowest.
      PR0 is actually the lowest, and this is still one above PR "N/A"

      Cheers,
      Dave
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      • Profile picture of the author Jill Carpenter
        Originally Posted by dadamson View Post

        PR is actually passed down through backlinks.

        If you have some higher PR backlinks than your actual page, the PR will often flow down to your page as long as it is a dofollow link.

        Source: years of testing.



        PR0 is actually the lowest, and this is still one above PR "N/A"

        Cheers,
        Dave
        Yes.

        I was concerned the OP might have thought that a "1" meant number one.
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        • Profile picture of the author dadamson
          Originally Posted by Jill Carpenter View Post

          Yes.

          I was concerned the OP might have thought that a "1" meant number one.
          Oh, ahah!

          Yeah, PR1 is at the low end of the spectrum.

          PR1 and PR2 is often achieved "by accident" over time if you run a good site.

          PR3 and above generally takes some work in my experience.

          To be honest, I don't even monitor my PR score anymore, it is literally not worth much in terms of actually search engine ranking.
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  • Profile picture of the author Benjamin Ehinger
    PR 1 is not much and they figure in the amount of content, the quality of the content, the ranking of each page and post, the traffic (to an extent) the amount of backlinks, and more. If you want to build it up you need more high quality content to help you get a higher PR.

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  • Profile picture of the author Karen Barr
    Nobody knows exactly because they won't tell, but it's based probably on a combination of age of site, traffic, time visitors spend there, number of pages, number of backlinks, quality of backlinks, plus number of outlinks and quality of outlinks.

    I've put up 6 sites this year and three have gone straight in at PR2, one at PR1 and one at PR0 (the other two weren't in time for the last revision.) The PR0 gets most traffic but the others have better backlinks, so I think this last update had more of a factor for that.
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  • Profile picture of the author imback
    Yea backlinks is probably your answer...and like the above user said they must be 'dofollow' links.


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  • Profile picture of the author wfstin
    It trickles down through backlinks, there was an interesting chart flowing around showing how it's distributed but you really shouldn't worry about it much. My highest earning site is still PR1 and I have one PR6 which doesn't make me any money outside of selling links on it.
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